XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Whether an end-user is operating from an industrial, manufacturing or office workspace, XR hardware and software could present opportunities to enhance a worker’s experience. Moreover, users can collaborate using VR/MR hardware using immersive environments and avatars, like Meta’s Horizon Workrooms platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye. Unreal Engine] is a beast which is inherently a game engine, not a film production tool.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2019

Oculus says that “most Rift apps on the Oculus Store built on Unreal Engine 4 and Unity already provide the depth information required to make ASW 2.0 We’ve reached out to Oculus for confirmation. Not all applications will work with ASW 2.0 right out of the box, but many will.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Modding is the act of modifying hardware, software, or virtually anything else to perform a function not originally conceived or intended by the designer. One widely-known mod is a game mode referred to as “battle royale.” Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ). Image Credit: Twitch Inc.).

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. This feature is fully documented with a guide on the Unreal forums. Breaking into Unreal development for the first time? GET THE PLUGIN. What’s Next?

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

The games run on Unreal Engine, and are targeting all three major VR platforms. However, the products due to launch on SteamVR should automatically work with the Rift, unless Bethesda take extra steps to lock out the hardware. Bethesda Plans to Support “as many platforms as we can”: Photo courtesy Bethesda.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think this may also have negative effects on the XR ecosystem in general: now the biggest headset producer has a strong partnership with the company making all the reference designs for all the XR headsets… and it seems that Meta’s competitors can launch their headsets only a few months after Meta, because they can not do it before.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2022

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Available as of this week for all developers , Unreal Engine 5 promises to usher in a new era of game development which makes it easier for developers to create games with extremely high quality assets and realistic lighting.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

IK refers to a class of equations for estimating the unknown positions of parts of a skeleton (or robot) based on the known positions. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. He also noted that Unreal and Unity will “try to catch up because the industrial segments are very important for them.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

This helps us turn our internal research, development, and focus towards exciting but unsolved problems in AR and VR hardware and software. Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to the division as Oculus Story Studio s ; it has since been corrected.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. These are the software components that run on the AR devices and are the closest to the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. All hardware and software should be able to work also with products of other vendors. The standard is becoming adopted, and now OpenXR is offering certifications for applications and hardware implementing it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2016

I n science fiction this is referred to as the metaverse.” To demonstrate, Sweeney showed off a clip of Hellblade , an upcoming game built on Unreal Engine 4 with incredible visual fidelity. “We are g oing to see full social experiences in VR,” Sweeney said. The sensor side is what’s going to change next for VR.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

HADO” is a name we use either standalone to refer to our flagship and most popular team sports game , but it also refers to a genre of games where an energy ball is released by the player through gestures. What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? With “technosports”, you will sweat.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. 72 Hz mode : the headset can run not only at 60 Hz but also at 72 Hz.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M The good news for Valve don’t end here.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces. The Qualcomm design is essentially a reference design and promotes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor as a solution for other companies to make their own wireless HMD, and the specifications will be released in Q4 of 2016.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This week @LeapMotion will be at @CES w/ their next-gen reference design Click To Tweet. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. The reaction from our community was incredible: The Orion beta makes it feel like new hardware. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

OpenXR, the open standard that creates a standardized way for XR hardware and applications to interface, has seen its first major update. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Platforms already exist that provide the immersion Apple offers but without the need to have a bulky — and very expensive — piece of hardware strapped to your face.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Doug Lombardi, Valve. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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ARPost

JANUARY 17, 2023

These devices, typically used for virtual screens or screen mirroring from a paired device, often include spatial controls like ray casting but are arguably not “true” augmented reality and are sometimes referred to as “viewers” rather than “AR glasses.”. Wearable AR devices have huge potential all around the world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We worked with key industry players and academia on the right algorithm (BVH) and then developed the right hardware to accelerate that algorithm (RT Cores). You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. Please refer to Jensen’s “it just works message.”

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

We’ve had this broadly analogous situation in the console space for years now, the difference here is that most people would regard the PC as a unified, open platform, especially when it comes to the choice of which hardware you use with the games you own. Do you think those concerns hold up with reference to Revive ?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. And there the ones of the A40 : GPU Memory 48 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC) GPU Memory Bandwidth 696 GB/s Interconnect NVIDIA NVLink 112.5 ″ (H) x 10.5″

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. We can see them as running at different layers, divided by their sector of reference. Douglas was not only focused on movies but on immersive media, in creating the future of cinema and he invented a lot in this sense (like the Imax format). He was obsessed with Virtual Reality.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. James is a minimalist, programmer, engineer and hacker whose development experience spans microcontroller hardware, full stack web, 3D graphics, and beyond. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build away!”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

It seems that in the Oculus SDK there are now some lines that refer to the Oculus Quest colocation APIs , that would let you play in local multiplayer with other people in your home. Of course, the hardware you use must provide access to this software solution. And there are even already some hints for the future. Why does this matter?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. Reference Design Issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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